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VBAJR How to compile into an *.exe that will run on another machine
Hello friends, I have been trying unsuccessfully to turn a set of working source codes (written in C) into an executable and have that *.exe be able to run on another machine. I have tried both as a Debug and Release version but no luck. What am I doing wrong Here are my actions taken: 1) File/New Project from Existing Codes 2) Select all the necessary *.c, *.h, and *.rc files 3) Changed project's properties to compiling C language ...Show All
DeepakRama Can't download anything from Visual Studio 2005 Registration Benefits Portal!! WHY??!!
Hey all, when I click the download button on the different registration benefit pages, all I download is a downloaddetails.aspx page itself... not Corbis photos .zip file or any of the others. Am I doing something wrong or something Has anyone else had this problem Thanks for your help is 2007 and still happening so if anyone knows the answer, which I think might be using IE. Ill try that and post it here for ...Show All
Jason P How do I add a Real Time Clock to my Application?
I am very much a newb to VB but want to get started on an Alarm Clock program, I have viewed the first 6 videos here http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/default.aspx So thats about as fars as my knowledge goes. I havent been able to find a Clock controll to add to my project, so how do I add a Real Time Clock to my project so that I can perform different functions based on what time it is ...Show All
johnallengreen Build error
The type 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device' exists in both 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\DirectX for Managed Code\1.0.2902.0\Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.dll' and 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\DirectX for Managed Code\2.0.0.0_x86\Debug\Microsoft.DirectX.DLL' I'm trying to understand the Battle Tank game articles. In week two it has me place some code and it calls it Device private Device device; The comments say that it is creating a device ...Show All
Dave# Production and commercial?
Can we legaly sell software developed and compiled using Visual Studio Express Editions Yes, you can - see the F.A.Q. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/faq/ Steve Hoag It seems like I've mised just that part :-D as I've read that document. Thanks. You can also read the fine print in the License Agreement, if you are fluent in legalese ;-) ...Show All
genuine_tuffguy Problem with classes & objects???
This has happened on 2 PC's (work & home) with both VB Express & C# Express. I'll use C# as the example. When you create a form you automatically get "using Foo;" created at the top. I'll use System.Data as an example. Since it's already "using System.Data", I expand that and add OleDB to the end of that. No intellisense but no worries, it works. I create the connection object as such: OleDBConnection conn = new OleDBConnection(); T ...Show All
stefansve Strange behaviour when accessing Excel VBA after installing VB 2005 Express edition
Hi, I recently installed VB2005 Express Edition to try to learn the new features of VB under the .net environment. The installation and registration went like a charm and the program is working as I expect. However, I am doing a lot of development work using VBA running under Microsoft Excel and since I installed VB2005, whenever I access the VBA IDE in Excel, I get a message box telling me that VB2005 is trying to install something. At fi ...Show All
msnashok Multiuser problems!! need helps
Hi, everybody. let we post the example to understand the problem: I have 2 tables: Person : ( PersonID , PersonName, ...) Phone : ( PhoneID , PhoneNumber, PersonID ) where PersonID is a foreign key. based on the MSDN sample, I create a form to enter informations about persons with its phone numbers using the datagridview. I have in my form: textboxs to enter person informations and datagridview to enter the phones numbers. ...Show All
ProgrammingHunter Newbie trying to understand the use of a Timer in Visual Studio VB
Hi I have copied the example code from the help files. ms-help://MS.VSExpressCC.v80/MS.NETFramework.v20.en/cpref17/html/T_System_Windows_Forms_Timer.htm but cannot figure out how to use it. I tried a whole bunch of things involving stuff like: Dim fred As New Timer fred.Enabled = True fred.Start() expecting the included 5000 ms timer to start and count down to zero then show the message as per the example code - b ...Show All
presence76 Database search
Hi there, I am new to VB Express. I have a project that requires finding 2 fields in a mdb database. The search key is a variant rather than a text box. In the project I modify input from a text box. The resulted variant is the search key for retrieving 2 fields in the variant record. The database is structured as follows: Location Identifier Field1 Field2 Alocation ABC 123 456 Blocation DEF 789 ...Show All
J Hallam Create forms in code but can't 'paint' them
I can create forms in code OK but if I draw graphics on them they don't refresh automatically. If they are resized or another form is displayed over them then the graphics are wiped out. If I could put the code in the form's paint method I know it would refresh automatically but I can't access the paint method because the sub form_paint() doesn't exist. Is there some other way of making a form created in code repaint ...Show All
Autox auto update the mycode.cs to reflect changes in mycode.cs [Design]
hi, is that a way to automatically update (by pressing a button or click from menu) to update the "mycode.cs" file to reflect the changes we did in "mycode.cs [Design]", for example when changing button name, changing form name from Form1 to something else, or changing namespace or there is just no way to update them (i guess that is impossible, there should be a way) anyone know maybe could share with me ...Show All
Saresh Naroji Massive iostream errors
Hey, i'm kinda new to Visual C++ Express and i'm having a problem when I include iostream. I've installed Platform SDK and this is what I compile: #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main(){ cout << "Hello" ; return 0; } I get tons of errors from this: ------ Build started: Project: empty_project, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Compiling... 2.cpp C:\Progra ...Show All
Mexx Problems with Database and openfile and savefile dialogs
Hello, i have a problem, i'm trying to do a application to works with a database (3 tables), i work with every table in a childform. my problem, i want to make an open and save buttons that allowme to carry the database to another pc to use with my application again, but i don't know how tu do it. the application open by default a database together the .exe (only works with the database that i've defined). This is the code for openfiledialog, i' ...Show All
Olly127863 relate an extension to my application?
Hi. How can I set windows to open a type of files with my application. like a file.doc will be opened directly by Word. I want that my file.ext will be opened by MyApplication.exe can anybody give me the code to do that... Thanks Thanks. But I want that in my application not in its deployment. I want always to check if my file type is associated with my application or not. if not, so I will ask for associate it.... I think I can do it wi ...Show All